[Mono-list] Tailcall

[Varga Zoltan]

                                           Hi,

  An alternative solution, which I use on sparc, is to copy the 
arguments which are in the incoming registers to the
outgoing registers
/stack locations. See mini-sparc.c for more info.

                    Zoltan

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> Hi,
>  The implementation of tailc is quite x86-centric in mini.c. 
> It assumes that all parameters are on the stack and by simply 
> going back to the previous stack frame then the jump to the 
> new routine will have access to the parameters that it wants. 
> For architectures where parameters can be in registers as 
> well as on the stack then this causes problems. The tailc 
> needs to be processed like a normal call so that the 
> registers get set up properly but the actual call can be like 
> "jmp". I'm not sure what the best approach to fixing this
would be.
> 
> Neale Ferguson 
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